Koenigstein (Upper Palatinate)

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Koenigstein (Upper Palatinate)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '  N , 11 ° 38'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Upper Palatinate
County : Amberg-Sulzbach
Management Community : Koenigstein
Height : 490 m above sea level NHN
Area : 35.13 km 2
Residents: 1717 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 49 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 92281
Area code : 09665
License plate : AS, BUL , ESB , NAB , SUL
Community key : 09 3 71 135
Market structure: 19 districts

Market administration address : 		Oberer Markt 20
92281 Koenigstein
Website : www.markt-koenigstein.de
Mayor : Bernhard Köller [Free Voters]
Location of the Königstein market in the Amberg-Sulzbach district
Auerbach in der Oberpfalz Königstein (Oberpfalz) Hirschbach (Oberpfalz) Etzelwang Weigendorf Birgland Kastl (Lauterachtal) Edelsfeld Edelsfeld Vilseck Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg Sulzbach-Rosenberg Eichen (gemeindefreies Gebiet) Freihung Hirschau Gebenbach Schnaittenbach Hahnbach Illschwang Freudenberg (Oberpfalz) Ursensollen Ebermannsdorf Ensdorf (Oberpfalz) Kümmersbruck Rieden (Oberpfalz) Hohenburg Schmidmühlen Poppenricht Ammerthal Amberg Landkreis Neustadt an der Waldnaab Weiden in der Oberpfalz Landkreis Schwandorf Landkreis Bayreuth Landkreis Nürnberger Land Landkreis Neumarkt in der Oberpfalzmap
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Koenigstein

Königstein is a market in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach and the seat of the Königstein administrative community .

Community structure

Königstein has 19 districts:

history

The place was first mentioned around the year 1130 as "Chungestein", which means something like royal castle. It was the seat of the Reich Ministries of Königstein, which were mentioned in a document in 1125 and died out after 1250. In 1393 Duke Stephan III took over . from Bavaria-Ingolstadt the place. In 1357 the village of Königstein was elevated to a market . Until 1623, Königstein was under the rule of the Lords of Breitenstein, whose tournament sign was awarded to the market by King Maximilian I Joseph in 1817 as the market coat of arms.

Incorporations

On April 1, 1971, the community Gaißach was incorporated. On July 1, 1972, parts of the dissolved communities Kürmreuth, Namsreuth and Sigras were added. On January 1, 2003, part of the dissolved municipality-free area Ober- and Unterwald became part of the municipality.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the market grew from 1592 to 1706 by 114 inhabitants or 7.2%. On December 31, 2004 Königstein had 1804 inhabitants.

religion

There are two churches in the village, the Catholic Church of St. Michael and the Protestant Church of St. George. Today's Protestant St. Georg Church was a simultaneous church until 1965 . Königsfeld is one of the nine communities in the northeast of the Upper Palatinate in which the majority of the population is Protestant.

politics

Market council election 2020
(in %)
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
58.88
41.12
Current distribution of seats in the Königstein municipal council (March 15, 2020)
  
A total of 12 seats

Market council

The market council of Königstein consists of twelve councilors and the mayor. In the local elections on March 15, 2020, 1,116 of the 1,440 residents entitled to vote in the Königstein market made use of their voting rights, bringing the turnout to 77.50%.

mayor

In the local elections on March 15, 2020, Bernhard Köller (FWG) was elected with 62.14% of the vote. His predecessor was Hans Koch (CSU / EL) for over 24 years (since May 1, 1996).

coat of arms

The coat of arms was given to the market town in 1817 by King Maximilian I Joseph and changed in 1982 by resolution of the town council and the approval of the government of the Upper Palatinate . The description reads: "Divided by silver and blue, above a red heraldic rose with a silver lug, below two silver Reuthauen diagonally crossed."

Twin cities

Königstein has two twin cities of the same name: Königstein im Taunus near Frankfurt am Main and Königstein (Saxon Switzerland) near Dresden .

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments

St. George
St. Michael

The Protestant St. George's Church and the Catholic St. Michaels Church are located in Königstein.

Remains of Königstein Castle are to the north of the Evangelical Church of St. Georg.

The well-preserved castle chapel of the Breitenstein castle ruins from the 12th century above the district of Breitenstein is the only Romanesque two-storey double chapel in the Upper Palatinate .

There are remains of the Kürmreuth Castle near the local church of St. Laurentius.

Johanniskapelle on the Kühberg

nature

An extensive network of hiking trails leads to remarkable rocks, caves and mountains. In the vicinity of Königstein are the Ossinger mountain with its observation tower, the Maximiliansgrotte , the Bismarckgrotte , the sundial , the Anton-Völkel-Grotte and the Breitensteiner farmer's wife . On the Sutzerberg (about 600 m) there is a two kilometer long botanical nature trail with 60 boards and a Loki Schmidt herb bed.

Economy and Infrastructure

Gainful employment

In 2017 there were 301 jobs subject to social security contributions in the municipality. Of the resident population, 737 people were in an employment relationship subject to compulsory insurance. This means that the number of out-commuters was 436 more than that of in-commuters. 13 residents were unemployed.

Hotels

A specialty of Königstein is the extraordinarily high density of hotels. In the town center alone there are five such buildings around the market square.

Business

In Königstein there are two supraregional bus companies with the companies Reiseienst Meidenbauer and Kugler-Reisen. In addition to long-distance trips, these also cover local public transport in the region.

Another employer in the municipality is the Taubmann construction company with 3 groups of companies for solid construction. Timber construction and a joinery center. The company builds residential, commercial, office and specialty properties.

Agriculture

In 2016 there were 34 farms. 844 hectares of the community area were used for agriculture.

Residential and nursing homes

There are several facilities for assisted living or for the care of disabled people in the municipality.

education

In the market town there are

  • a day-care center with 62 approved places and 50 children (as of March 1, 2018) and the
  • Primary school Königstein with five teachers and 83 students (school year 2018/19)

fire Department

The Königstein volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1872. With the current state of the art, the weir covers a wide range of application scenarios. In addition to the original fire-fighting task, this includes technical operations such as door openings or traffic accidents through to disaster control operations. The Wehr maintains (as of 2019) 5 vehicles, spread over 2 fire stations.

Others

One kilometer north of Königstein is the oldest human dwelling in the Upper Palatinate, the so-called Kühloch ( cave cadastre Franconian Alb , cadastral number A 40). Cave bears lived there more than 12,000 years ago . Researchers also claim to have found remains of ice foxes and mammoths there. Stone drills made of blue-gray flint, blade scrapers made of chert and skeletal remains have come down to us from the Stone Age people who used the cave as a dwelling. Millennia later, the Kühloch still served as a shelter. This is where the farmers hid their cattle during the wars. The name Kühloch comes from this time. In addition, robbers and murderers used the cave as a refuge.

Sons and daughters of Königstein

  • Johann Georg Beringer (1829–1919), telecommunications inspector and bee specialist
  • Friedrich Wiesend (1909–1972), ballet master at the operas in Darmstadt and Berlin, staged a festival in Königstein about the fate of the von Breitenstein family.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ^ Community of Königstein in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on July 29, 2020.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 578 .
  4. ^ Dissolution of the upper and lower forest on January 1, 2003
  5. ^ Assumption of Mary: No public holiday in nine Upper Palatinate parishes , BR24, accessed on August 15, 2020.
  6. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Botanical nature trail
  10. ^ Taubmann building
  11. ^ Deutscher Orden: Sociotherapeutic Addiction Support Institution
  12. ^ Regens Wagner Foundation Michelfeld
  13. ↑ Dr. Loew Koenigstein
  14. ↑ Königstein primary school in the school database of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture , accessed on July 29, 2020.
  15. ↑ Königstein Volunteer Fire Brigade

Web links

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